Chapter Fourteen; Forever Hopeful
Dear Reader,
Trying to get a job sucks. It really does.
I've always known it but I've never had a chance to put it into practice...until now. Until I had to find one myself, with no one to do it for me, no one to hand it to me. It's hard, I believe we're allowed to say that. We're not moaning or whining or whinging. It's buggeringly difficult...to get noticed in this sea of people applying for the same job, to know what to wear if you even make it to the interview, to know what to say to get them to employ you or when to even begin to have the slightest positive thought about possibly, maybe getting the job.
The overwhelming sense of failure when you don't manage to get a job you actually thought you might be in with a chance of getting is the hardest thing to move on from. Why will no one ever give you a break? Why will no one ever give you a chance? You know you could do it if they just gave you the mother flipping job so why is no one employing you?
I have all these questions and you probably reading this hoping that that I'll also have the answers...I don't. I'm sorry. I really wish I did and lets be honest here, if I did, I would be employed already! I would also be selling my theory for a silly amount of money...
I apply for jobs on a regular basis and I'm often up against 40+ other applicants for this one position, how are you ever meant to compete?!
But sometimes, you get asked for an interview and sometimes you get asked for a second interview.
And the only piece of advice I can give you is to believe that you are good enough. You don't always make it to the finish line and win first prize but sometimes you learn more being a runner up. And thats something I have learnt a lot about recently, I have come so close and yet so far on numerous occasions.
I cry.
I cry because I feel I have failed, yet again. I feel I'm useless, like I'll never get a job, like I'll forever been stuck between people not employing me because I don't have enough experience and not being able to get it because no one with employ me.
I cry
and then I let it go.
I listen to the feedback (of which there's never a lot), and then I take it on board and try and move forward.
It seems so trivial but the world can't turn unless you have a job, everyone needs money, it's just a fact of life. A truly sucky one if you're struggling to find said job.
I apply for more jobs and just hope that someday, somewhere, someone me will give me a chance.
Never doubt that you are good enough.
Forever hopeful.
S.P.
Trying to get a job sucks. It really does.
I've always known it but I've never had a chance to put it into practice...until now. Until I had to find one myself, with no one to do it for me, no one to hand it to me. It's hard, I believe we're allowed to say that. We're not moaning or whining or whinging. It's buggeringly difficult...to get noticed in this sea of people applying for the same job, to know what to wear if you even make it to the interview, to know what to say to get them to employ you or when to even begin to have the slightest positive thought about possibly, maybe getting the job.
The overwhelming sense of failure when you don't manage to get a job you actually thought you might be in with a chance of getting is the hardest thing to move on from. Why will no one ever give you a break? Why will no one ever give you a chance? You know you could do it if they just gave you the mother flipping job so why is no one employing you?
I have all these questions and you probably reading this hoping that that I'll also have the answers...I don't. I'm sorry. I really wish I did and lets be honest here, if I did, I would be employed already! I would also be selling my theory for a silly amount of money...
I apply for jobs on a regular basis and I'm often up against 40+ other applicants for this one position, how are you ever meant to compete?!
But sometimes, you get asked for an interview and sometimes you get asked for a second interview.
And the only piece of advice I can give you is to believe that you are good enough. You don't always make it to the finish line and win first prize but sometimes you learn more being a runner up. And thats something I have learnt a lot about recently, I have come so close and yet so far on numerous occasions.
I cry.
I cry because I feel I have failed, yet again. I feel I'm useless, like I'll never get a job, like I'll forever been stuck between people not employing me because I don't have enough experience and not being able to get it because no one with employ me.
I cry
and then I let it go.
I listen to the feedback (of which there's never a lot), and then I take it on board and try and move forward.
It seems so trivial but the world can't turn unless you have a job, everyone needs money, it's just a fact of life. A truly sucky one if you're struggling to find said job.
I apply for more jobs and just hope that someday, somewhere, someone me will give me a chance.
Never doubt that you are good enough.
Forever hopeful.
S.P.
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